Company Last Year Had Informed the State It Was Holding 10 Industrial Chemicals

The company that spilled a pollutant into a vital West Virginia water supply informed state authorities last year that it was storing 10 industrial chemicals on the site, including the contaminant that leaked, according to a document released Saturday.

Freedom Industries Inc. disclosed in February that it was storing between 100,000 and 999,999 pounds of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, known as MCMH, which it described as having...

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